Boundaries blur inhabiting Blair before he was Orwell.

Kristiana Kahakauwila’s “boy-specific mind-reading powers”

In Steven Millhauser’s Disruptions, the invisible world is perpetually on the verge of becoming visible—and that suspense just kills me.

These six books by local authors from national publishers reflect a state that punches above its literary weight. Will they open doors for others? Are there others?

Chris McKinney’s sci-fi Water City Trilogy paints the collapse of civilization and devolution of the human species in just 18 years. It’s also damn funny. Until it isn’t.

Angela Nishimoto takes on Hawaiʻi’s Lolita problem in Isabella’s Daughter.

In Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare, we behold the rarest of flowers: a young writer’s confident, unflinching, wholly surprising debut.

Jeff Higa tracks middle school changes from escapism to representation via Malia Maunakea’s Lei and the Fire Goddess, a quest novel for keiki.

Mindy Pennybacker’s new book, Surfing Sisterhood Hawai‘i: Wahine Reclaiming the Waves, describes communities of wahine surf regulars and their joys—and challenges from insecure men.

A walk through a human minefield with only a poi-dog mix for company.

The Perfect Sound charts how an obsessive pursuit of the perfect sound system echoes Garrett Hongo’s melancholy over his Hawai‘i diaspora life.